FE-based damage modeling approach for short fiber reinforced thermoplastics under quasi-static load coupling anisotropic viscoplasticity and matrix degradation
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FE-based damage modeling approach for short fiber reinforced thermoplastics under quasi-static load coupling anisotropic viscoplasticity and matrix degradation
It is challenging to predict the material degradation and crack initiation of short fiber reinforced thermoplastics (SFRT) components with high computation efficiency and low parameter identification effort. To achieve that, this work utilizes a hybrid method combining micro- and macro-mechanical approaches to describe the damage-coupled material behavior of SFRT. The Mori-Tanaka mean-field homogenization method is used to determine the effective linear elastic properties of SFRT, whereas the consideration of plasticity is based on a macro-mechanical anisotropic viscoplastic model. The effect of micro-damage in the matrix material on the macroscopic behaviors of SFRT is considered within the Continuum Damage Mechanics (CDM) framework. A nonlinear damage evolution law is implemented to account for the nonlinearity in the damage evolution. Targeting industrial applications, the proposed damage-coupled material model is implemented into the commercial FE software ANSYS with a novel stepwise damage updating process, requiring no user-defined subroutine. The model is calibrated with experimental data on flat specimens under monotonic and cyclic tensile loading. The FE simulation with the calibrated material model accurately describes the anisotropic deformation and crack initiation of the investigated SFRT material observed in experiments.
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